President Trump and former Vice President Biden don’t agree on much, except perhaps their desire to regulate “big tech,” although admittedly for different reasons. While some regulation of the technology sector could make sense, politics has turned much of the conversation into a continual “roast” of these companies. Unfortunately, these political attacks — from both the left and right — threaten to result in bad regulations if we are not careful.
The most glaring example of this slippery slope is the issue of Section 230, the law that protects platforms from liability for the content that users upload or create. President Trump, and many notable conservatives such as Senator Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, argue that this law allows “big tech” platforms to actively discriminate against conservative voices. To fix this, these politicians want to remove or limit Section 230 protections.
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